293. Garden soil, bathroom and playpen confuse the puppy

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Silkie, Male, 4 months old. Couple with teenaged daughter.

1. Playpen + newspapers when owners go to work.
2. When owners come back from work, bring puppy to the garden. Puppy eliminates and play in garden.
3. Toilet + newspapers. Shreds newspapers. Pee and poop on floor after shredding papers.

Very confusing schedule for a young immature puppy mind. Where should he eliminate?

Excitation urination. Sees owners or picked up. Urine comes out.
Male Puppy barks at couple when told to go out, but not teenaged daughter (who gives treats as training). Probably an alpha male dog.

What to do?

1. Fixed schedule for paper training. Easier said than done as owners not around during day time.
2. Buy a pee tray if want to paper-train.
3. Neuter male dog if too aggressive or bites.
4. Use treats in training.
5. Daughter to start "stay" command. Still young.

In such cases, it is best to go to garden in evening and pee-tray/paper trained in the playpen at other times. No toilet room yet.